Beretning om veterinærvæsenet i Norge for året 1891.

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Circular to the Chief Magistrates.
Frorn
The Home Department of the Royal Norwegian Government.
By § 1 of the Law of the 20th May 1882 relative to domestic animals,
every qualified Veterinary Surgeon is required at the expiration of each year to
send in, through the High Sheriff concerned, to that Department of the Government
having charge of the Civil Veterinary Department, an account of his labours
according to the annual return more fully framed by the Department.
In respect to this it is determined as follows.
The report, which roust be made sent in by every qualified Veterinary Surgeon
enw iged in practice, be he civil or military, shall describe the conditions
of the district in which he luis practised, and include the period from the Ist
January till the 31st December during the year last past, and must be sent in to
the Department, through the High Sheriff concerned, within the expiry of the
month of February. Provided a VeterinarY Surgeon has, druing tile year, pracrise('
in various counties, a separate report for each county in which he has
practised must be sent in, as the report must be transmitted through the High
Sheriff concerned.
The 'report shall be accompanied by a list of the cases of sickness which,
during the year, have been observed by the Veterinary Surgeon in conformity
with the sick list transmitted herewith. Should other diseases than those
entered thereon, namely contagious diseases, spread to any great extent, or be of
particular interest, they shall be entered in the reserved columns.
The report must contain a concise, but, so far as possible, complete enlightenment
concerning:
1_ The general conditions of health amongst the domestic animals.
'2. The diseases, contagious or otherwise, or the circumstances which to any
special degree have influenced the state of health, the cause of the diseases,
their extension and nature, and amongst what species of animals the particular
diseases have occurred, the time and place of their appearance, and
the duration of the epidemic.
3. The transmission of . disease from animals to man or the reverse, with
statement as to the nature and course of the disease. The diseases men